Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Dustin' off the ol' blog...

To all three of you who are still possibly checking on this blog from time to time, may I just say, you look lovely today? (Unless you're a guy. In which case, may I just say, you look lovely in a totally manly way today?)

I've missed you.

It's been a long, fairly miserable three months, about which the less said, the better. But now, the flowers are blooming, it stays light past the point where I fall asleep on the couch and my Detroit Tigers are getting ready to disappoint me again -- yes, it's spring, and what better time to start sitting indoors at my desk and blogging again?

Yes, you heard it right: some sainted soul, whose creativity should be cloned immediately and without delay (yes, those mean the same thing but redundancy and repetition are how I express my excitement and enthusiasm), has built a Bill Paxton-themed pinball machine. It looks like this:

And it plays like this:

Best of all, when the game is over, Bill Paxton shouts, "Game over, man!" from "Aliens, commemorating the single greatest performance ever committed to film by a man named Bill Paxton starring in a James Cameron production of a film featuring Sigourney Weaver that is not "Avatar."

Now, as many of you know, in a head-to-head match-up of acting incompetence and two-dimensional gesturing, I prefer the Pullman over the Paxton (see "Independence Day") but the pinball machine may be the thing that finally bounces Paxton into the lead. It's a well-deserved honor. May the great Paxton balls of pin never get wedged in that one unreachable spot where you have to pick up the machine and jiggle it until the damn thing breaks free. Amen!

Good thing I followed you on Twitter as well, since nothing showed up on the Livejournal RSS. So glad to see you back! :) And I giggled a lot at the thought of hearing "Game over, man!" as the last pinball sinks out of sight... :D

As someone who also has had sucky months... made suckier by not having your blog posts to chuckle over... WELCOME BACK!... and i think this means you have to come up with a trifecta of nerd men of the month, 'cause I miss them too...

I am so glad to see that I am not the only one to miss this blog while you were gone. I'd peek in at least every other day. I filled the time waiting by finally watching all of "Torchwood" and I'm hooked now.